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This is a perfect example of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
The left is the party of no principles.
When you have none you're free to criticise everything.
When you have them anyone can take pot-shots at you.
If your idea of a principle is raising taxes on the working poor, then I am happy to agree with you that we liberals do not have that principle.
When Obama caves in and extends them, remember this.President Obama said flatly today he would block renewal of George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy when they expire at the end of 2012 (the year he is up for re-election).
"I refuse to renew them again," Obama said during his speech today on reducing the federal debt.
You were saying?"We don't believe that raising taxes is the answer here," said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va.
You were saying???Republicans said they will battle to maintain tax rates for all Americans.
"The one area that we know we're not going to get very far on is the idea that we're going to raise taxes on the very people that we expect to invest in our economy and to help create jobs," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Don't be stupid, DontBeStupid.
Raising taxes on the working poor???
Like cigarette taxes, liquor taxes, every sin tax you can imagine? Those kinds of tax increases? How about the taxes on tanning booths?
Obama raised 8 different taxes in his first year. All of them effect the poor.
So STFU
Raising taxes on the working poor???
Like cigarette taxes, liquor taxes, every sin tax you can imagine? Those kinds of tax increases? How about the taxes on tanning booths?
Obama raised 8 different taxes in his first year. All of them effect the poor.
So STFU
And if a poor person doesn't smoke or drink or go to a fake n bake .. then what? Uh oh! No tax increase!
Well, at least not until the GOP get their way.
GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block - CBS News
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
I thought Obama wanted "everyone" to have "skin in the game"?
What skin do billionaires have in the game?
It's hard to argue with the brainwashed..."Save the Rich!!"...
GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block - CBS News
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block - CBS News
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
AND yet your article can't cite even ONE Republican who has come out saying they are FOR eliminating the reduction in the payroll tax?
GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block - CBS News
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
AND yet your article can't cite even ONE Republican who has come out saying they are FOR eliminating the reduction in the payroll tax?
"We don't need short-term gestures. We need long-term fundamental changes in our tax structure and our regulatory structure that people who create jobs can rely on," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., when asked about the payroll tax matter.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., "has never believed that this type of temporary tax relief is the best way to grow the economy," said spokesman Brad Dayspring.
The Associated Press: GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block
